Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

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Hard On

Sweden
2019 — 19' / Color

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Synopsis

Secretly she is filming everything. In a surreal apartment a cougar, a guest, a child and promises of a dog - if the child plays along.

Official Trailer

Directors' Biography

Joanna Rytel graduated in 2004 from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She has developed a complex artistry, which always points out our time's most poignant issues of gender, power and identity. She approaches these issues with great integrity, putting the personal at stake, making her form of address accessible to those outside the usual art and film worlds.

Directors

Joanna Rytel

Producers

Helene Granqvist

Joanna Rytel

Cinematographers

Lisabi Fridell

Animation

Amelie Bjurenhed

Editors

Joanna Rytel

Sound

Manne Kjellander